Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

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Hello and Welcome to the Get It Scrapped Creative Team Blog Hop!

I am so happy to be starting my second year on the Get It Scrapped Creative Team along with these fabulous scrapbookers:

As you hop along the Get It Scrapped Creative Team Blog Hop, you will see exciting new layouts from the Creative Team inspired by their favorite articles at Get It Scrapped and you will get awesome discounts on Masterful Scrapbook Design issues - so don't miss a stop!

Need a Quick Start for 3 Photo Scrapbook Pages?

I love that I can go to Get It Scrapped and find a scrapbooking article that I can put to immediate use.  Many times, I have a particular number of photos I'd like to use on a scrapbooking layout and Get It Scrapped has so many posts and ideas for scrapbooking pages by the numbers of photos you have.    This article about 3 Photo Scrapbook Pages inspired my three layouts:

Get It Scrapped Article: 3 Photo Starters for 3 Photo Scrapbook Pages.

This article makes building scrapbook pages so easy!  This layout about my son was inspired by the GIS article and it went together so quickly with Tip #2:  Use One Large Photo and Two Smaller Photos (all of my photos started as 4x6 photos), here it is:

 

Supplies for this layout:  Stacy Julian's Photo Freedom Paper for Echo Park; Knock Knock Stuff Note; and KI Memories Bejeweled transparency.

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Amy Kingsford
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Michelle Houghton and Scrap Weaver
Marie Pierre Capistran
Christy Strickler
Heather Awsumb
Michelle Hernandez
Lise Mariann Iselin
Alexis Aragona
Kristy T
Stefani Semple
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Sian Fair
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Carrie Arick
Kiki Kougioumtzi
Tara McKernin
Susanne Brauer
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Andrea

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Doris Sander

Celeste Smith

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National Scrapbook Day: #BigPictureClasses + #2Peas + Challenge #1 = Right Now Layout for #NSD2013

I'm scrapping on the slow side today so I thought I'd combine the Big Picture Classes and Two Peas in a Bucket Challenges and this is my Layout for the Challenge #1 mash up: "I statements" + camera motif.

And I made this page and then I took a nap... back to scrapbooking.

 

 

4 Layouts / One Night: How Message Boards Can Help You To Get More Scrapbooking Done!

Last night I made 4 layouts.  Whoo Hoo!  I wasn't even going to scrapbook at all until I saw this "General Scrappin" post at Two Peas.  My Friday night post that lead me to make 7 layouts had inspired someone!  How thrilling!  So I couldn't wait to play along. 

 

NOTE ABOUT THE VIDEO:  That's a flash video which sadly does not play on iphones, but you can also get there by going to ustream and searching "scrapbooking" and my channel is "Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking" there. Ustream is a bit tweaky and there are commercials but it lets me talk for 80 minutes - something I can't do on youtube.

I did usteam for most of the process which is fun, but also slows me down a lot! 

Here are the layouts:

#1 Mischief Allowed:

Here's a detail shot (somehow I didn't get the twinkling of the jems despite being in natural sunlight - you'll just have to trust me that they are sparkly and fun):

And then I made another ustream video and started three more layouts that used scraps for the backgrounds:

 

Layout #2: Never-Ending Yum:  All about unlimited ice cream on cruise ships:

I even went glitter crazy on a chipboard cherry embellishment:

#3: You 2 in 2013:  I made this one with lots of pink scraps and some Primrose Shine Spray from Heidi Swapp:

Here's a detail off my mostly handcut hearts - inspired by a Corrie Jones layout - she did washi strips with white hearts over top:

#4: Making Waffless (remember donkey from the Shrek movies?). 

I made the background paper with scraps of patterned paper strips and I laid them on the already diagonally striped design:

 

Speed Scrapbooking: 7 Layouts In One Night

Last night, just for fun and to challenge myself, I started a thread at the General Scrappin' message board at Two Peas to see how many layouts I could make in one night.  Here's the link:  Friday Night Scrapping Message Thread at Two Peas.  Here are the layouts:

1.  CRUISE FASHION: 

I started this one a while back when I bought the clothes for the cruise and so I already had the tags placed on the cardstock so I just had to add photos, journaling and a title.  Easy.

2. GOODBYE ATLANTIS

The layout design for this one was based on this 3 photo layout by Susan Weinroth.

3. SLEEP DAY OR NIGHT:  This layout was inspired by this photo of my kids on the ride home from the cruise and the sunlight was shining in on their sweet little sleepy heads and they were even snuggling (and not fighting!); it reminded me of how they'd fall asleep in the car when they were babies.

I used this 2 photo scrapbook sketch by Jayne 

4. My Girl:  And yes I did finally find a use for that giant Me & My Big Ideas stick figure girl!

Goofy but appropriate for this one:

5. Artsy Girl:  Using another big cartoonish character - this time from Cosmo Cricket:

This one started out being inspired by This Shimelle / Glitter Girl Scrapbook Layout: Try This Journaling Idea but it went a little off the rails.  I made my own pie chart - which mimiced the pie chart my daughter drew - she is always into the trends:

6. TRAVEL TOGETHER: 

I think on this one I started thinking that inking the edges really does slow me down / but looks good - so its a love / hate thing.  This one also doesn't really have a title and that's ok with me since its going into the beginning of our cruise album and its pretty much self explanatory- or at least I think so:  Its about the 4 of us traveling together.

7. MIDNIGHT MINIGOLF!  The last one!  And I think it was about midnight!

I didn't do a whole lot of embellishing (or any) on this one but was inspired to used vellum after watching this "Seeing Double" video by Jen Gallacher at Two Peas.

Yippee!  I'm done uploading (I think the uploading actually took longer than making the layouts!).

Peace out scrapbookers :)

 

Scrapbooking the Cruise: Rain Forest Waterfalls

"We skipped the famously crowded Dunn's River Falls because Charlie said they were crazy busy so we were so happy to get to see waterfalls in the Jamaican jungle (actually rainforest) while we waited to board the ski lift to Mystic Mountain.  3/2013."

Supplies:  Heidi Swapp; My Mind's Eye; American Crafts; Bella Blvd.; K&Company; Stazon.

This layout was based on Let's Capture Our Memories Sketch #16.  #LCOM16.

Scrapbooking the Cruise: All Aboard

Journaling:  "Saturday, March 24, 2013 Naples to Miami to board the Breeze Cruise Ship.  We drove from Naples through the Everglades and saw lots of alligators and vultures and then through some sketchy streets in Miami - so we were all thrilled to finally arrive at the Cruise Port - we nixed the in town parking so Charlie parked the truck and the kids and I made sure our 8 bags got onto the boat - it seems like we brought so much stufff!  Of course we overpacked, but it was ok!  K 3/2013"


I used embellishments from the Paper Cottage line from Basic Grey and a the calendar Bingo embellishment is Jenni Bowlin.

Scrapbooking the Cruise: At Long Last

My husband and I love boating so we were shocked and more than a bit disappointed when we discovered that our daughter did not like boating, until this past month when we went on our cruise. 

The night before the cruise we went to Naples, Florida and took a sunset cruise after  lots of "please, please, please just go on the boat and yes, we'll buy you some flip flops... discussion to get her to agree to go.  Midway through the sunset boat ride, she announced that she now liked boating.   Hallelujah!

 

Scrapbooking the Cruise: Its A Hobby / Scrapbooking from a Sketch

I discovered something about my son during our recent cruise:  He is a Chess Player!  One night during a formal dinner, I took him out the dining room since he had ants in his pants and we found the library where they had board games and we played chess while I talked the calm back into him.  During the first game, he'd ask questions like "what does this one do" and "where does everything go" and then by the third game he'd beaten me; and I'm not the kind of mom that just lets the kid win at this sort of thing.  I used to play chess with my dad and it took me years before I could even get close to beating him.  After the win, I asked him how he did that and he shrugged and said "It's a hobby."  "It is???" I couldn't believe it. "Yeah, I've been playing for the past three years" he said.  "What?!  How did I not know this???"  And he just smiled and said that he'd played at summer camp.  We ended up playing chess every day of the cruise and on  one of the final days we got to play the giant chess set up on the top deck and of course he beat me again!

This design page is based on Shimelle's Scrapbook Page with a Central Focus Sketch.

 

 

Scrapbooking the Cruise: Getting There is Half the Fun

I think setting three photos in a row on a 12x 12 page is perhaps the easiest scrapbook layout ever.  I did crop two of these photos but it was still easy to fit all three in a horizontal row and embellish around them.

Our cruise left out of Miami so we had a bit of a drive to get there and my daughter was happy to listen to her iphone music; on the journaling I wrote about how I used to listen to 45 records and the list is her current favorite songs.

I consulted with her on her favorite songs:

Also I used the American Crafts letters where you can add your own glitter and I must say I was so happy with the result - it was fun and easy.

I have set up a bunch of embellishment bins and I've been having lots of fun finding random treasures for clusters of embellishments on my scrapbook pages.

 

Scrapbooking the Cruise: Flip Flop Shop & Key West

We went on a family cruise on Carnival's new ship the Breeze over Spring Break.  There were ups and downs but overall we had a fantastic time. One of our minor disappointments was that we ended up going to Key West instead of Turks & Caicos, on top of that, my son didn't even get off the boat in Key West and my daughter saw this excursion as a chance to get flip flops rather than seeing the sights. 

My husband had booked us on a catamaran snorkeling trip but cancelled it because it was just too cold and blustery.  So he and I were a little less than thrilled to go to Key West - which is a lovely place - but just wasn't on our itinerary, we did try to make the best of it and we did go to the aquarium which was fun.

Journaling:  "Mac didn't even want to get off the boat and we were all a bit disappointed that it wasn't Turks & Caicos - but Allison used Key West as her chance to score some new flip flops. " "Making the best of our last minute detour to Key West - Spring Break 2013."

 

#MasterfulScrapbookDesign & #Scraplifting Corrie Jones / Process & Finished Layout (updated)

That was the in progress layout & Here is the completed layout:

I'm on the Masterful Scrapbook Design chat now with Debbie Hodge & Corrie Jones & I scraplifted her Go! Go! Go! Go! Layout (you can see it here by clicking through to Corejones' blog).

Madonna wanna be title & journaling to come. 

Journaling Reads:  "It is so awesome to me that my girl loves Madonna just like I did.  She says her favorite song is Madonna's Like A Prayer - me too sister - Love, Your 80s Mommy 3/18/13."

The Story:  My daughter came to love Madonna all on her own and I was actually thrilled - I love Madonna too; and while her songs were a bit racy back in the 80s they seem a bit tamer now - but probably still too racy for my 9 year old - but she loves them and I just can't say no - and she looks adorable as a Madonna wannabe - this was her Halloween costume - that she created herself - hot rollered hair courtesy of yours truly. Awesome.

So I got to ask Corrie where to put the title - I had already started the journaling in the lower left and on the Masterful Scrapbook Design live chat she suggested that the title go right in the middle over the middle photo and overlapping a little onto the two other photos.  And presto!  Done!  Thanks Corrie - your pages in Masterful Scrapbook Design are amazing!

P.S. Of course I used my American Crafts Thickers from Two Peas!

 

Remember Rock Candy? + A Layout with Heidi Swapp's Sugar Chic Inspired by Shannon Tidwells 213 in 2013 Prompts on Two Peas in a Bucket

So I love to play along with the Two Peas in a Bucket Video Challenges - it gives me a little something to get started on a layout and helps me to scrapbook much more quickly.  The prompts for this layout came from Shannon Tidwell's 213 in 2013 series, the prompts were:

1. Cut a Design from Patterned Paper:  I figured Heidi Swapp did this for me and I used one of her "Banner Delights" from the Sugar Chic line.

2. Go Metallic:  Again, I used a Heidi Swapp embellishment (the heart on the lower left) which had gold toned sequins.

3. Tie it with a Bow:  While I do have Heidi Swapp's Sugar Chic bow on paperclips embellishments - they just seemed too bulky (plus I think I'd rather use them in a mini book) for this page so I tied a bow with baker's twine which seemed perfect for the subject matter of the page - rock candy - which when I was a kid was made at the store where we bought it!

4. Heat It Up With Embossing Powder:  Again, I cheated and used Heidi Swapp's Sugar Chic paper and embellishments which came with already heat embossed and glittered accents. 

This page came together very quickly and I decided to omit a title because it felt done.

Journaling:  "Remember:  Colorado Chocolate Factory at the Denver Airport and You two wanted rock candy!  1/2013.  I remember when I was a little girl and Grandma Grace would bring me and my sister Jenny down to Padanaram Village to feed the ducks and often she'd let us get a treat at the Village Market and I'd either get a Tootsie Pop and look for the Indian (native american) shooting a star on the wrapper (which meant you got an extra pop for free) or a stick of rock candy.  - Katie / Mommy - child in the 1970s."

 

 

 

Inspired by Glitter Girl #60: Big Hair

So the story is that I did my hair in rollers before doing the Paperclipping Roundtable Podcast yesterday - no the podcast is not video taped; yes, somehow as an adult who was a teenager in the 1980s, I still had the urgent need to hot roller my hair.  I just couldn't not make my hair big, its just what I do when I think something is important!

I wrote "Even now, in 2013:  The bigger the event = the Bigger the Hair.  Teen of the 1980s"  The tag is from Amy Tangerine for American Crafts.

Journaling:  "Even Now, like yesterday - I was on the Paperclipping Roundtable - a podcast (or radio show if you don't know what a podcast is!) and I had to pull out the hot rollers!  ... These photos were taken at pageants in 1986 when I won the Speech Competition that won me the scholarship to Eckerd College that brought me to St. Petersburg where I met Daddy / Charlie"  - Katie 3/6/2013.

So yes, I have BIG Hair to thank for my where I am and who I'm with now!  Yay for big hair!

I did get out my paint and glitter last night and painted just about all the raw chip board I have!  It was fun - I really need to get the paints and glittery stuff out way more often!

You just know I wanted to use the rhinestones and not the pearls right?  Well, I would have except that I listened to Shimelle / Glitter Girl's gal pal Miss Smith's New UK Scrapbooking Podcast: Curiouser and Curiouser and she made it quite clear that when given the choice, you should always choose the pearls!  So I went with it - (don't worry - there will be lots of opportunities for those lovely rhinestones which I also happen to love!).

 

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Paper Strips Pinterest Inspiration Board: Layout #2: Kayak Camping

I used a 6x6 Paper Pad from Basic Grey to create this paper strip layout so the strips were 6 inches x 1 inch and I cut them in the middle so that I could make it look like they ran the whole height of the 12x12 scrapbook paper. 

I inked the edges and then sewed down the photo matte in the middle, I like the machine stiching both for visual interest and for actually helping to keep all the papers in place.

This layout was inspired by the banners under the matte on this layout and the the idea of using paper strips from one 6x6 paper pack on this layout.

If you have a layout with paper strips, please leave a comment & a link so I can pin it on my Pinterest "Paper Strips" collection.

Mac's Black Belt Training

This layout was inspired by a Glitter Girl episode on Two Peas that included an extra page of journaling.  We had to write Mac's biography for the black belt programme tonight so it seemed like a perfect fit for this type of a layout.  I used a star star stamp and the same patterned papers on the journaling sheets to tie the different pages of different sizes together.

And P.S. after hitting every TJ Maxx and Marshalls in town I finally found some American Crafts Thickers for $1.49!